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Trailers for Hollywood movie The Wolverine, the latest of the X-Men franchise. Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Logan aka Wolverine, who travels to Japan and battle ninjas and samurai while having his healing ability suppressed by enemies.
Other co-stars include Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Will Yun Lee, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, Brian Tee and Famke Janssen.
Hollywood movie stars Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Sally Field, Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Amy Adams and Zoe Saldana etc. walking the red carpet at the 85th Academy Awards.
Movie stills from Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (雪花秘扇), starring Chinese actress Li Bingbing, Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun and Aussie actor Hugh Jackman.
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Popular Australian actor Hugh Jackman shows his dance talent in Tokyo Dancing Hotel, a Japanese-themed global advertisement for Lipton Ice Tea.
Didn’t know this but he’s a successful stage actor before making his Hollywood breakthrough with X-Men in 2000. These moves are piece of cake.
Jackman will soon film a new Wolverine movie which is set in Japan, but I think he will shoot most of the scenes in studios and “fake” locations. For example they made this Lipton advertisement in Rio de Janeiro and not Tokyo despite the title.
Trivia: Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. There’s about 1.6 million people of Japanese descent in the country.
[Update 2013] Check out the official trailers for The Wolverine. As expected it’s mostly filmed outside of Japan. Many of the co-stars are Japanese though.
Some Korean and international stars were asked about what “Seoul is…” to them. The interview videos are at least a few months old and most probably scripted. Featured celebs (according to sequence) are Rain, Daniel Henney, Hugh Jackman (Australia), Ruby Lin (Taiwan), Girls’ Generation, TVXQ and Super Junior…
Forbes Magazine has compiled a list of Hollywood’s best and worst movie stars according to the return on investment. Check here for the criteria and numbers, below are the lists instead.
1. Vince Vaughn
2. Tobey Maguire
3. Julia Roberts
4. Brad Pitt
5. Naomi Watts
6. Matt Damon
7. George Clooney
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Hugh Jackman
10. Ben Stiller
1. Nicole Kidman
2. Jennifer Garner
3. Tom Cruise
4. Cameron Diaz
5. Jennifer Lopez
6. Jim Carrey
7. Nicolas Cage
8. Drew Barrymore
9. Will Ferrell
10. Cate Blanchett
The lists are based on the actors’ three recent films. It’s really about having a good or bad year instead of the stars’ long term bank-ability.
On side note, three “Jennifer” on the lists, is it that common a name or mere coincidence instead?